Posted on 05/26/21
| News Source: i24
With just one more week for Israel’s opposition leader Yair Lapid to form a government, his centrist Yesh Atid party struck a coalition deal overnight with the left-wing Meretz party.
Lapid’s mandate expires on June 2 after which the Knesset has 21 days to form a government or Israel will head to a fifth round of elections in less than three years.
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Despite inking deals with Meretz and Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu party, Lapid needs the support of Naftali Bennett’s Yamina party, but Bennett two weeks ago nixed the idea of joining a unity government that includes the left, citing increased tensions between Jews and Arabs within Israel.
Read more at i24NEWS.